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Interest your reaction to this court opening. the republican party is an anti-abortion party almost entirely, thats a sort of consensus view. the legal stars of the conservative movement in the republican party are opposed to abortion. many think that roe was terribly decided and sloppy. and then awful a sudden everyone gets bizarrely quiet when the opportunity is up for a supreme court justice who would presumably provided fifth vote to overturn roe. and i dont quite get it. is it just politics...

Shut out and thats roe poisoning the system that way and people mobilizing is not at all inconsistent with what youre saying, irin is exactly the point. the anti-abortion movement in this country is incredibly strong tore precisely the reason they want to see abortion banned. that is why -- >> ruth bader ginsburg agrees with leon. he had would have preferred it was left to the states. but we also have 45 years of precedent and people who have organized their lives around legal abortion and we al...

Reproductive freedom but there is absolutely no question that gorsuch, roberts, and anyone who is appointed to replace kennedy if trump appoints someone and theyre confirmed for this senate, they are gunning to roe. its only a question of how explicit will they be, how long will they take to get there, what legal theory theyll use but this is something the right has been working on for 45 years and has finally gotten herr chance. >> i will note leons last point about feeling democratically shut ...

Oconnor, anthony kennedy, all three appointed by republicans, all three voting to uphold the core holding roe. if that happened, if donald trump were to appoint a justice who would uphold the holding of roe work conservatives feel angry and betrayed? >> i think you only have to look back to 1992. i think that was one of the key elements that led to george h.w. bush being defeated, that and the tax hike. i think those are the to things that as a republican president you cannot do, which is number...

Would whos going to be my vice president. i have a slate of candidates. thats never been done before. >> yeah, both the sort of explicit promise and the slate of candidates, which to leon i think leon helped him with conservatives. these are the five that sayering a on the short list now. thomas hardman, raymond keth lej, amy coney barrett and bret cavanaugh who people have been talking about forever. you have david suter, sandra day oconnor, anthony kennedy, all three appointed by republicans, ...

Abortion nationwide, found to be a constitutionally protected right. but right now both women arent saying much to put abortion rides advocates at ease. "ms. murkowski has said she will consider a nominees views on the abortion rights views but that it alone would not be a litmus test for her choice." joining me now is journalist erin carmone, co-author of the notorious rbg. shes got a piece in the "washington post" sayinger, conservatives will try overturn roe versus wade. and leon wolfe, manag...